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Title: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins oral history interview 3, 1996 January 20
Creator: Counts-Scoggins, Dorothy, 1942-
Date Created: 1996-01-20
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, Civil rights movements, School integration, Racism in education, De facto school segregation, African Americans--Education (Secondary), African Americans--Civil rights, African American families
Description: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins recounts being the first African American student to integrate Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina at the age of fifteen. Topics discussed include the remainder of her secondary education, Charlotte busing and ...

Title: Betty Seizinger oral history interview, 1999 June 22
Creator: Seizinger, Betty, 1931-2004
Date Created: 1999-06-22
Subjects--Topical: School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Discrimination in education, De facto school segregation, Teachers, Magnet schools, Busing for school integration, Race relations
Description: Betty Seizinger discusses the history of West Charlotte High School and shares her experiences as a teacher there during the 1980s. Ms. Seizinger describes West Charlotte's challenges and successes in integrating staff and students during the...

Title: Andy Baxter oral history interview, 1999 June 29
Creator: Baxter, Andy
Date Created: 1999-06-29
Subjects--Topical: Students, Public schools, School integration, Student government, Segregation in education, Race relations
Description: Andy Baxter talks about his experiences as a student at West Charlotte High School, where he was student council president in his senior year. Mr. Baxter reflects on his experiences with racial integration at the school, speaking at length about t...

Title: Barbara Ledford oral history interview, 1999 July 17
Creator: Ledford, Barbara, 1940-
Date Created: 1999-07-17
Subjects--Topical: Public schools, School integration, Multicultural education, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Students, School management and organization
Description: Barbara Ledford describes her experiences as a teacher and administrator within the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, where she was employed in several schools including East Charlotte High School, Northeast Junior High School, and West Charlot...

Title: Don Williams oral history interview, 1993 October 22
Creator: Williams, Don, 1939-2004
Date Created: 1993-10-22
Subjects--Topical: Foundries, Flextime, Foundry workers, Plastic pipe industry, Mechanization, Pipe mills, Piping--Design and construction, Work environment
Description: In this interview, Don Williams recounts his twenty-five year career at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry and discusses his current position in the company's newly created Industrial Division. Hired in 1968, Mr. Williams discusses how he came to wor...

Title: Jonnie McLeod oral history interview 1, 1993 July 6
Creator: McLeod, Jonnie H., 1923-2011
Date Created: 1993-07-06
Subjects--Topical: Pediatricians, Women physicians, Sex instruction for youth, Drug addicts--Rehabilitation, Substance abuse--Treatment, AIDS (Disease)
Description: In this interview, Dr. Jonnie McLeod discusses her forty-year long career as a physician and as a central figure in Charlotte's medical community. She discusses the role her gender has played in her education and career, including the sexism ...

Title: Evelyn Van Hecke oral history interview, 1999 July 15
Creator: Van Hecke, Evelyn, 1958-
Date Created: 1999-07-15
Subjects--Topical: Art--Study and teaching, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, School integration, Race relations, Public schools, High school students, High school students--Societies and clubs
Description: Evelyn Van Hecke recounts her experience as an art teacher at West Charlotte High School in the 1980s and 1990s. Topics discussed include the role fine arts classes played in bringing students of all backgrounds together, her experiences working w...

Title: Jeff Brafford oral history interview, 1993 May 12
Creator: Brafford, Jeff
Date Created: 1993-05-12
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Wheelchair basketball, Wheelchair basketball players, Basketball--Tournaments, Fund raising, Basketball--Rules, Wheelchair sports, Wheelchairs, Athletes with disabilities, Sports for people with disabilities, Basketball stories, Exhibition games
Description: Jeff Brafford, a wheelchair basketball player with a mobility impairment, shares his experiences playing wheelchair basketball with the Charlotte Cyclones in Charlotte, North Carolina. He talks about the history of wheelchair basketball which star...

Title: Eloise W. Rushforth oral history interview, 1996 July 10
Creator: Rushforth, Eloise W., 1916-2017
Date Created: 1996-07-10
Subjects--Topical: Middle class families, Family vacations, City and town life, Evangelicalism, Presbyterian Church, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Religion, Revivals
Description: Eloise Rushforth recounts her family's close relationship with their neighbors, the Grahams and the Blacks, and her memories of Billy Graham as a boy and later as a budding evangelist in Charlotte, North Carolina. She recalls joint family vacation...

Title: Wendell D. Sloan oral history interview, 1996 April 16
Creator: Sloan, Wendell D., 1926-2002
Date Created: 1996-04-16
Subjects--Topical: Revivals, Religious gatherings, Evangelicalism, Christian life, Spiritual life--Christianity, Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity, Values--Religious aspects--Christianity
Description: Wendell D. Sloan, a church administrator, describes his experiences with Rev. Billy Graham over the years. He discusses Billy Graham's ministry and his own involvement in the Charlotte crusades, including chartering two buses from Augusta, Georgia...

Title: Melvin Graham oral history interview, 1996 May 21
Creator: Graham, Melvin, 1924-2003
Date Created: 1996-05-21
Subjects--Topical: Christian life, Evangelicalism, Evangelists, Religious gatherings, Revivals, Family farms, Farm life
Description: Melvin Graham, the younger brother of Billy Graham, recounts their childhood in Charlotte, North Carolina and how Rev. Graham became involved in the church. Melvin Graham discusses life on the dairy farm growing up and how the family grew increasi...

Title: Charles McCullough oral history interview, 1993 August 30
Creator: McCullough, Charles, 1932 or 1933-2017
Date Created: 1993-08-30
Subjects--Topical: School sports, Track and field, Basketball, School sports--Coaching, Basketball coaches, Basketball--Coaching, Basketball--Tournaments, Basketball players, School integration, Basketball for girls, Basketball for women
Description: Charles McCullough discusses his experiences playing high school and college sports, and his career as athletics coach at West Charlotte High School beginning in the 1960s. He attended West Charlotte High School as well as coaching there as an adu...

Title: Robena Morgan oral history interview, 1996 May 2
Creator: Morgan, Robena P., 1906-2006
Date Created: 1996-05-02
Subjects--Topical: Christian life, Religious gatherings, Revivals, Evangelicalism
Description: Robena Morgan of Charlotte, North Carolina, recalls one of Billy Graham\u2019s crusades that she and her father attended at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California. Ms. Morgan explains that her father was an acquaintance of Billy Graham's and ...

Title: Dr. Robert McMullen oral history interview, 1996 May 19
Creator: McMullen, Robert J.
Date Created: 1996-05-19
Subjects--Topical: Christian life, Revivals, Religious gatherings, Evangelicalism
Description: Dr. Robert McMullen describes his viewpoint on Billy Graham and his crusades. While Dr. McMullen did not personally meet Rev. Graham on any occasion, he does have strong opinions about Rev. Graham's occupation and reputation. Dr. McMullen admires ...

Title: Suzanne "Susie" O'Neal oral history interview, 1996 May 2
Creator: O'Neal, Suzanne
Date Created: 1996-05-02
Subjects--Topical: Christian life, Evangelicalism, Religious gatherings, Revivals
Description: Suzanne "Susie" Herndon O'Neal recalls a Billy Graham crusade that she, her mother, and her grandmother attended in the 1950s. Ms. O'Neal was around ten years old at the time of the crusade that she attended in Greensboro, North Carolina. She desc...

Title: Ellen M. Little oral history interview, 1996 April 26
Creator: Little, Ellen M.
Date Created: 1996-04-26
Subjects--Topical: Revivals, Religious gatherings, Christianity, Christian life, Amusements, Evangelicalism, Presbyterian Church, Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity, Race relations
Description: Ellen Little discusses her experience of attending a Billy Graham crusade in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1972 and the impact it had on her spiritual development. A teenager at the time of the revival, Ms. Little describes the points of Dr. Graham...

Title: Lawrence E. Funderburk oral history interview, 1996 April 24
Creator: Funderburk, Lawrence E. (Lawrence Edward), 1920-2012
Date Created: 1996-04-24
Subjects--Topical: Evangelicalism, Baptists, Christianity, Christian life, Revivals, Religious gatherings, Clergy, God (Christianity)
Description: Reverend Lawrence Funderburk, a local Charlotte minister, recounts his involvement with the Billy Graham Crusades in Charlotte, particularly the 1958 Crusade, and his role in the Southern Baptist Convention. He shares his thoughts about Reverend B...

Title: Aldridge Kirk Hardee oral history interview, 1996 May 3
Creator: Hardee, Aldridge Kirk, Jr., 1913-2002
Date Created: 1996-05-03
Subjects--Topical: Drugstores, Soda fountains, Pharmacists, Cities and towns
Description: Aldridge Kirk "Doc" Hardee discusses his career and business, Hardee's Pharmacy in Charlotte, North Carolina, and his connection with the family of Reverend Billy Graham. He describes his drug store, including the soda fountain, lunch counter, and...

Title: Olivia Singleton oral history interview, 2002 September 17
Creator: Singleton, Olivia C.
Date Created: 2002-09-17
Subjects--Topical: Immigrants, Mexicans--Social conditions, Mexicans--Social life and customs, Mexicans--Cultural assimilation, Latin Americans, Hispanic Americans
Description: Olivia Singleton is from Mexico City, Mexico and she discusses her experiences living in Charlotte, North Carolina after marrying an American citizen. She talks about how she is fond of North Carolina and feels welcomed. Mrs. Singleton speaks on t...

Title: Rosemary J. Lands oral history interview, 1996 April 8
Creator: Lands, Rosemary J.
Date Created: 1996-04-08
Subjects--Topical: Revivals, Religious gatherings, Christianity, Christian life, Evangelicalism, City and town life, Business enterprises--Religious aspects, Amphitheaters
Description: Long-time Charlottean Rosemary Lands discusses her and her family's experiences with the 1958 Billy Graham Crusade in Charlotte, North Carolina, which she attended at the age of twelve. Ms. Lands details the planning and community involvement prio...

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